Definition of Sodomies

1. sodomy [n] - See also: sodomy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodomies

sodium sulphite
sodium tartrate
sodium taurocholate
sodium tetraborate
sodium tetradecyl sulfate
sodium thiocyanate
sodium thiopental
sodium thiosulfate
sodium thiosulphate
sodium tripolyphosphate
sodium tungstoborate
sodium vapor lamp
sodium vapour lamp
sodiums
sodoku

Literary usage of Sodomies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"Not to insist on sabbath- ' breaking, thefts, cheating, fraud, extortion, violence, oppression, lying, robberies, sodomies, and murders, which, ..."

2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"... infidelity, fornications, adulteries, incests, and sodomies, as well as briberies, robberies, murders, thefts, intrigues, and fraudulent speculations, ..."

3. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1858)
"... sodomies and such other Crimes, as by the Laws of the said Commonwealth are made Capital or Felonies of Death, and also of all other Mi.s- deeds, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"It is a superstitious idolatry, full of monstrous incests, sodomies and detestable bestialities." Such are the words of the Bishop of Chiapas. ..."

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